From:
William Walmisley Baxter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 98
Summary:
Sends CD a measure with capacity of 20 oz or 34.65925 cubic inches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
14 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Breckenridge Long Box 224 – Autograph Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for loan of measure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 81
Summary:
News of progress of German editions of Origin
and Descent.
Asks CD for references on chabius – a Chilean hybrid of goat and sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 64 (EH 88206047)
Summary:
Is it now thought that the spongioles of rootlets secrete carbonic acid which acts on bones and rocks?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 148
Summary:
Sends paper on Artemesia.
Praise for Descent.
Has talked to St George Mivart about CD’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
16 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:
Explains why he must decline to write for the Index: his health is poor and he has never systematically thought much on religion. FEA may print his comments, "with qualifications", if he wishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 405
Summary:
Almost 600 copies of Descent sold at trade sale, with 120 left in stock. Suggests printing another 1000 to give more time for correcting the work for 2d edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 7 (EH 88205932)
Summary:
Praises and comments on JL’s essay on insects ["Origin of insects", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. 11 (1873): 422–5].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 80–81)
Summary:
CD offers to mark corrected passages in sheets of 6th edition of Origin.
Discusses question of hybrids between goats and sheep, on which H. von Nathusius has cast doubt in his recent Viehzucht [1872]. CD gives several references for a contrary view.
Asks JVC to inquire about HvN’s assertion that castrated rams have no horns.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1871]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 38)
Summary:
Says has sent a copy of CD’s memorial to Captain Jones. Passes on Sir Geo. Grey’s comments on pasturage near Morpeth. Tells superstition about straight furrows and fairies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 236–7)
Summary:
Has decided that 1000 copies of Descent should be printed. Will make no alterations. "If it goes on selling it will shew that it is worth a thorough revision."
The U. S. sale of Descent (10000 copies) is larger than in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Christie’s, New York (dealers) (3 December 2010: Sale 2361, Lot 422)
Summary:
Thanks for the information about the action of roots on rocks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
18 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 111
Summary:
Inquires about the effect of turf covering on the rate of disintegration of rock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (9 April 1963)
Summary:
Asks for some pamphlets, the titles of which have been sent to him by Dr Spengel [see 8053].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 117–118
Summary:
Horns of castrated merino rams remain almost undeveloped.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Owen Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 119–20
Summary:
The horns of castrated male lambs compared with horns of ewes. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 506.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 78
Summary:
Sends CD a German pamphlet, "War Goethe ein Darwinianer?"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A35–6
Summary:
Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1871
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 47)
Summary:
Sends back proofs. Praises CD for calm treatment of Mivart. Looks at duck’s mouth. Asks whether CD has seen Snow’s article in the Spectator.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 148
Summary:
Effect of turf covering on the disintegration of rocks. Weathering of rock; relative importance of different agents with different rocks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Repository
- American Philosophical Society2
- Anna Barone (private collection)1
- Cambridge University Library52
- Christie’s (dealers)1
- Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine1
- Harvard University Archives1
- Harvard University, Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library1
- Houghton Library, Harvard University1
- Huntington Library1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland2
- Kenneth W. Rendell (dealers)1
- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond4
- Royal Entomological Society, St Albans1
- Smithsonian Libraries1
- Sotheby's (dealers)1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- Swann Auction Galleries, Inc. (dealers)1
- Sybil Rampen (private collection)1
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